The Viewing Room Ep 40 - The Accountant 2 - Review and Analysis

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's not my business one hundred years ago. Yeah, it's
not my business anyways, right, But I do like the
thought that they were like super angry and they're planning
to like killing the dog at some point because they
were chosen.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Now, they could make a movie about the making a
Wizard of mine.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Could you imagine you just like you? Just like you
look at Ronald in the corner and he's holding Toto.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
It would be so funny if they did, like an
actual movie on that. But they still paint the dogs more.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Dude, it's a horror movie, right, and it's it's Terry
the dog running away from like seventy little people with.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Knives and white they're trying to find him. That's insane.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Man.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
Oh and now time for the viewing room with Adam
and Eton.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Welcome to the viewing room. Are we talking about film?

Speaker 6 (01:16):
I'm a scott Man.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Just when I think we've graduated from that.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
I was playing the long game with that one. I
just had to wait and wait and make you think
I was done, had forgotten about it. I'm going to
hit you with it. Hit you with the scat man.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
We're talking about films new and old local today in
the form of The Accountant too. Yes, oh, with Ben Affleck,
John Burnhal you know brothers Brax and Chris Braxton and Chris. Yeah, okay,
well we're here. It's been out for about three weeks
time on this recording. And I've never seen the first one.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah it's trap sty but I.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Saw it in theaters last night, like the second one,
and I gotta say, I haven't laughed that hard in
a movie in a long long time. This one, this
one tickled something in me, like it like it was
a good movie to watch. I had a lot of fun. Yeah,
And it's always great when you go to the theater
and you spend your your bucks and and you feel
like you want to spend more bucks at the theater,

(02:22):
and that's that's always a good thing, especially when you're
rolling the dice. And I mean, I hadn't got my
ticket for as I said, though, I would have far
rather bought tickets for this than Thunderbolts. So you know, okay,
this is a better movie than Thunderbolts. I'll say, I'll
be honest, this is a better movie than Thunderbolts. Thunderbolts
wasn't bad, though it was pretty bad.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
We don't need to get back into Yeah, yeah, you
want to hear argue about that. Go to the last episode. This,
this is episode forty. I just realized, Oh, look at
episode forty.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
We're forty episodes in, forty episodes in.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
We're almost that's almost a year now. Actually, fifty two
will be a year. Very perceptive, I think.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Actually we missed one week though, didn't we at the
very start, and we missed Christmas?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Oh so, and we missed one week with Thunderbolts.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, forty nine.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Was the first Tuesday, and August we.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Did release like the Thunderbolts episode like on a live stream,
so technically forty nine technically, so we're nine episodes away
from a year. I guess.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
So August, the first Tuesday in August is a year.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh but that's tough. Okay, interesting because I might not
be like in the city for that. So interesting enough.
Maybe we have to pre record episode this episode one
one year episode. Very interesting. Maybe we'll come up with
something special. Yeah, let us know in the comments if
you have any ideas or anything you'd like to see.
Accounts In two released April twenty fifth, twenty twenty five,

(03:49):
with a budget of eighty million dollars shorter than I
would have expected. Makes me happy though, because honestly, let's
just make lower budget movies. That's not that's not a
low budget by any means, but.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Like lower compared to you know, three hundred million dollars.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
You can get away from the three hundred million whatever.
I think that's better overall because like, think about it,
like they can maybe take the prices good.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
I think also when you looked at it, like it
just when you when you have an eighty million dollars
a three hundred million dollars, you have less people working
on it, which means that people working on it are
more intimately aware and familiar with the material, and I
feel like you it shows through in the final product.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's more of an art project in a way, because
people are passionate and you know, like there's something to
be said about you know, car pulling to set and
stuff like that, and and even just little things like
that that I feel like, yeah, make someone more connected.
It's less of a paiycheck because I feel like when
you work on a Marvel movie, it's like, sorry, I've

(04:50):
never worked on a Marble movie, but it's like, oh cool,
I'm working for Disney now right, like this Cappuccino's like,
you know, on the house kind of thing. But then
like get into the lower budget, you're like, oh, you
have to be a little bit more conscious of things
and put more thought into it. It's not like, oh,
Daddy Figy.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Is just gonna give us some more money.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
It's gross eighty six point nine million so far, so
it's made a little bit of money. Three weeks in,
I gotta say it doesn't. There's rumors of a third
one and bringing back there was a lay I never
saw a character and Andrick, so she was in the
first movie.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
That was one actually one of the things that I missed.
I was really hoping that they would continue that storyline.
But at the same time, it kind of feels natural
that they didn't like for the character.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, so I read on IMDb that they were like
the filmmakers were like, it's just not necessary.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, and I totally see that, Like, I don't think it.
I don't think it detracted from this movie. And if
they had put it in, maybe it would it would
have detracted who knows.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
I sure, again, I haven't seen the first one. I
liked the story of the brothers. I thought that was
good for me.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Basically Cole's notes of the first one. Yeah, he owns
a little accounting firm ZZZ Accounting. And there's this the
lady who plays the deputy in My canmember her name
now in this second one is just an analyst. Yeah,
she's just an analyst in the first one. And then
Ray King, who is in the current deputy position, calls

(06:14):
her to his office and he's like, hey, I want
you to go after this guy, and he shows her
a bunch of photos JK. Simmons, Yeah, he's like and
he shows a bunch of photos of the surveillance photos
of Christian Wolf diaking deals with other people. Anyway, long
story short, she kind of finds him and there's just
one company that they're kind of you know, he's working for.

(06:35):
It's like, actually, I llegit gig instead of his normal
hitman gigs or not hitman but normal. And that's where
it meets Anna Kendrick's character. And it turns out they've
uncovered something that they shouldn't have and now they're both
in danger, and so they go on the run and
then his brother is the one trying to kill the
guy or trying to protect the guy that he's trying
to kill, and it's a whole thing. Anyway, at the

(06:56):
end that him and his brother they meet up or
they're like, you know, they have this big final battle
or whatever, and then they're like, Okay, we'll get together
next week or whatever. And he doesn't. He leaves Annik
Andrick's character because he's like, I'm a weirdo and you
know I'm not. I don't know what to do, you know,
And and the antie sends her a painting that she

(07:16):
had seen in his airstream again like all tying that
stuff back. So that's kind of the the Coles notes
of the of the first one.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Cool yeah, cool, uh obviously it builds off of the
first one. Going to the theater, and I don't us
should go to theaters without like the preliminary knowledge. But
I honestly really enjoyed it and I got everything that
I needed to understand, yeah, pretty much within the first
twenty thirty minutes.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
I haven't seen the first one in ten years, yes,
so I was. I mean, I remember some of it obviously,
but I went home and watched it the first one
last night after the movie.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
So it's it's for me, it's like, obviously that entry
knowledge would have been good, but like, I had such
a good time anyways that I wasn't really wishing I
did otherwise, And honestly, maybe someone else will feel the same.
I don't think you need to see the first one, sneeze.
It definitely helps. Go watch a four minute recap or

(08:14):
read a little synopsis of the first one. But yeah,
you like, I had a great time without seeing the
first one, and I feel like a lot of people
will feel similarly. Yeah, but obviously, if you can and
have the time, go get the preliminary knowledge, do your thing,
make it happen, because obviously you want to understand as
much as possible, right, and.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, and especially understanding the backstory between Christian and his brother. Sure,
that's the biggest thing. And it works totally if you
just come into it without owing seeing the first one.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, they explain they haven't seen each other for eight
years or whatever and stuff and yeah, you're not calling
or anything like that, and John Burnhal gets a little
bit emotional, which is funny to watch, Like it's not sorry,
it's a sad scene for sure, but it's like it's
funny to me seeing like The Punisher all of a sudden, like.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, crazy. That's one thing. John Berenthal always does a
great job, like yeah, I should so he's a really
solid actor, and I think this movie is no different.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
I'm watching Daredevil right now and I'm only like three
episodes in and John Burnhal has a good one along, like, yeah,
M been good. Uh okay, I should say, uh, there's
socks of a third one. So right now I would
say they haven't made enough money to justify a third one,
but it sounds like they're planning it.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
I It's one of those things where I don't want
to see it because to me, there's not an easy
setup at the end of this one, and it just
feels like they're.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Look at the theater right now, what do we have?
We have Thunderbolts, which is the thirty six Marvel movie
Final Destination, what Bloodlines or whatever? How many Final Destination
movies are there? We have this sequel, We have the
How to Train Your Dragon remake in two weeks. Every
movie in the theater right now is a remake and

(10:08):
a sequel. And it's crazy, like I.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Knew that was gonna happen. Yeah, and now you scared
Maggie too.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
It's just it's just like, what are we doing now?

Speaker 2 (10:19):
This movie was great, it was fun, and I think
I think it's good, but but it's it's it's like
people are having a hard it's like almost like the
entire industry has creative burnout.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
What it is is, it's just it's it's become a gamble,
right because less people go to the theater now because
it's so expensive, So less people want to take the
risk in terms of let's make something new and original
because they know if they make The Accountant Too, they
know if they make the thirty six Marvel movie that

(10:53):
people are gonna see it and it's printing money. They
know that, okay, easy boom, do this for two years
and we're gonna make a hundred million bucks. That's great investment.
Everyone would do that. It's great, it's fantastic, But unfortunately
it's just like, oh, why do we keep having remakes
and sequels and whatever? And I'm sure the How to
Turn Your Dragon remake is gonna be fantastic. I'm sure

(11:13):
it's gonna be great.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Mostly the Naked Gun remake coming in August. Again, it
looks great. Liam Neeson like looks fantastic in that.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
But it's still really it's just like yeah, exactly, it's
just like more and more and more, it's like you
want to see something original in you. And that's not
to say that there's not movies like that being made,
of course there is. It's just like when you go
to the theater, I just feel like, oh man, it's
kind of saturated right now. It's just all of this
like blah, like it's just it's just gross, man. And

(11:42):
I just like, I mean, I'm kind of a sucker
for it. I play right into it. I still go
see all the movies. I still like watching the Marvel movies.
I liked this one. And maybe I'm a hypocrite, but
like I'm not the one paying for it. I'm paying
for it at the theater, sure, but like you know
what I mean, like I'm not the one making it,
and I'm just going to see it, right, And so
it's just like I want to be in a position

(12:05):
ideally where like you can make something you and creative
and stuff, and it's just unfortunate that it's harder and
harder nowadays to do that because no one wants to
pay for something like no one wants to pay for
that risk, right, And anyone who goes and makes a
Marvel movie knows there's no risk. It's just literally like

(12:26):
you're gonna make money off of it, right, So whatever?
For casts, we got Ben Affleck, John Burnhall and Cynthia
I Die Robinson obviously, Christian Braxton, Marybeth.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
And it was just Simmons has a small part too.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Jackie Simmons a very very small small part part and
directed by Gavin O'Connor Warrior right the first movie and
the first one. Sure, I guess we could remakes. And

(13:08):
again I'm whoever has that loud vehicle out there if
that comes through on the recording. And again I see
I'm such a hypocrite too, because I'm like, want to
see Final Destination tomorrow, right, And we're gonna go see
Indiana Jones at the rock Sy on the day this
comes out.

Speaker 7 (13:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Speaking of which, if you're seeing this in the morning
this evening, we've got Ragers Lost Dark at Colisseum. We
haven't showed a Colosseum enough lately. They've got some great
movies coming up. We've got Indiana Jones, Mam and Mia
Feel the Dreams Fellowship with the Ring. They've got a
whole bunch of great stuff coming out, so go check
them out. Coliseum Presents Dot.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
How do you feel about real releases because.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
It's a money grab, But if I like the movie enough,
then I don't care.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
I have no problem doing re releases because it's like,
how do I explain it, It's like it's an opportunity
to see a film you haven't seen yet in the
theater for maybe even a cheaper rate. So I'm actually
really like, I'm fine with re releases, but I'm not
not not fine, but I like sequels less and remakes

(14:14):
less compared to re releases, you know what I mean,
Because like, you're not getting a shittier version of something
when they re release something in the theaters because we're
just going to see that thing.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
And also join I mean, also, they can make a
help a lot more on rerelease because they don't have
to reshoot the whole movie.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
That is true, but I feel like less people see
a re release.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
It's true, but still every ticket you sell is not
being compared against the cost of making it.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Sure, Yeah, it's that's that's a good point.

Speaker 7 (14:45):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
I feel like too, like whatever we've talked about it
so much or whatever. But I do like going to
the Rock Sea and the Broadway Theater to see re
release movies and stuff and older movies because it's like,
I never saw Indiana Jones in the theater, so it's
a great way to actually see that movie for the
first time. I get a refresher. So I'm very grateful

(15:08):
to how that opportunity. Thank you to Colis and Presents
for putting on such amazing classic films. And we'll see
you guys at the theater. Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be
it's gonna be fun. I'll read a synopsis here. Forensic
accountant Christian Wolfe teams up with his strange but highly
lethal brother to track down mysterious assassins. That's a really

(15:30):
short synopsis. There we go. Okay, yeah, perfect. Uh so
this takes place eight years after the first one. It
came out nine years after. Uh, and we see Christian.
We know he has autism.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
It's autism, right, Yeah, that's one thing they specify in
the first movie is that it's autism.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Okay, cool, Yeah, yeah, So he's he's autistic and he's
kind of particular organized straight to the point no pattern. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
That's one of his big things, the pattern recognition.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah, which is a little bit helpful for an accountant
or forensic kind of person. And uh, people act off
of patterns typically or follow a set kind of like whatever.
So I'm trying to actually remember how the movie even
even starts, because we see like the neuroscience division, and

(16:26):
I guess I'll explain.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Herbert Harbor neuroscience or neuro something. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, And so we learned that there's like a bunch
of kids, like a secret like network of kids with
unique abilities that are like basically his his eyes in
the sky, the giants in the chair, yeah yeah, yeah,
and and basically these are are they all autistic or
are they just like they're all.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
I guess you'd see neurodivergent, like sure, Like I don't
think it's necessarily all autism, but they all have some
sort of something that that makes them different or it
doesn't necessarily make them fit in unique abilities.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Right, yeah, And so it's it's not seen as something
that hinders them. It's seen as like they use this
as part of their skill set.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Given them an opportunity to put their their abilities to use.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Right, because they work really quickly, and and they're good
at a lot of the stuff st that is required,
so they kind of like work with them trying to
like tap into networks and ips and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Camera feeds, pull reports, track people.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, exactly. And so they're all really like highly intelligent
people who are doing this, and they're all kids, yes,
very interesting, right, And so those are kind of his, uh,
his plot device. That's that's basically like how he gets
out of most of the situations. Now, like civil explain it,
We'll explain that. Hi, Maggie, what do you want?

Speaker 8 (17:47):
You want to go side? You can't. Then you're gonna
run away.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Because you ran away, so we can't let you outside
by yourself anymore. I know you don't like that.

Speaker 9 (18:00):
Come come come, come, come, come, come come come. I know,
come come come, come, come, come come. You want to
come here? You want to come here?

Speaker 2 (18:17):
What were Mickey?

Speaker 1 (18:20):
You're were? Okay? So the movie starts off with C. JK. Simmons.
Obviously from the first movie. I don't know really his part,
but seems to me like he's like a contract broker.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
So basically in the first movie, he's the deputy something
or other of the US Treasury. Yeah, and then at
the and and and we find out that he has
been kind of he gets tips from this British lady,
same one in the second movie. He gets tips on
you know, there's gonna be a drug movement here, this

(18:55):
sort of thing. And so he's busted a whole bunch
of these cases. And then at the end of the
movie he's retiring and like seven months or whatever, and
so he kind of passes along that role at the
Treasury to what's her face? You're forgetting her name?

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Oh, Mary Bet, Yes, Mary Beth.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
And so then he's retired and he goes into do
p I work Okay, I see yeah, Okay.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
So basically he meets up with this lady and tries
to give her a job. Basically he's looking for a
kid essentially like who is a strange for this family? Yeah, yeah,
that's been kind of like estranged and put over the
place and stuff like that, and so went missing. They

(19:38):
went missing, right, And so she kind of hesitant to
take the job. She's not really sure like what this
is supposed to be. And he's like super passionate about
about it, right.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah. Interesting thing because she because he shows her the
picture obviously she's an assassin. She's like, I don't do kids.
I don't kill kids, right, yeah, And he's like, I'm
not asking you to kill the kid. I want you
to find them. She's like, well, that's not what I do.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
So we also learned that she is also the mom
in the photo, but that.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
We learned that at the end, well like halfway through.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, Like I'm just explaining that she's the mom and
this kid and basically she doesn't know it yet, but
like she had an accident or whatever, and her memories
been kind of like rearranged and scattered, so she doesn't
she doesn't know that she is this kid's mom, and
she looks completely different anyways. So so she's there. There's

(20:31):
a team of people after trying to kill her, basically
the same people that kind of separated this family and
who did whatever or after her to kill her and
finish the job. Basically JK. Simmons thinks it's they're after him,
and they do end up killing him, and basically he
says like rights on his arm. He's like find the
accountant because he knows, like something's gonna happen. That bathroom

(20:55):
fight scenees, Yeah, exactly, it was really good, isn't it. Yeah?
And so obviously JK. Simmons is killed, and then Mary
Beth comes in and sees him and she's like, yeah,
that's that's my old boss. She sees the writing on
his arm, that's his fine the accountant, And so basically
she knows that she has to go look out for

(21:15):
a Christian wolf. Maggie, do I come here at least
so that they can see you?

Speaker 8 (21:25):
Do you want to come on camera? Come?

Speaker 2 (21:27):
You be camera shy?

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Come?

Speaker 2 (21:33):
She's giving us the treatment now, she's like, I'm not
tugging to you.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
She knows she's about to go in the room. Good girl,
Oh go let down. Okay, go le down, go down,
go lay down. She's like, you want me down? Oh

(21:58):
you're such a good girl, but you have to go
lead ah.

Speaker 7 (22:02):
H m hm.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
I think she hears the dog that goes, oh what
a cue.

Speaker 8 (22:11):
It's okay, okay, okay, you're fine.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
You're such a good girl. You came here.

Speaker 9 (22:21):
Do you want to come here?

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Okay? And his nephew wah yeah. Let's say do we
need a five minute bathroom break?

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Let's just get you're making us loser.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Momentum Maggie.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
I've been a very good studio dog right now, good girl,
good down?

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, can you sit?

Speaker 8 (22:51):
You're so adorable.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
But we'll play with you after.

Speaker 10 (22:55):
Oh, oh, there you go, there you go, there we go,
there we go.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Perfect. Okay. So so okay, so we finally see Christian Wolf.
He's hanging out in his trailer. Unless he thought it
was a private jet at first, yeah, just not seeing
the first one and then it cuts out and it's
just a trailer and I thought that was funny. He's
getting ready for a date essentially.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Or or date speed dating.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah, And so he goes to the speed dating thing, and.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
I also have to point out like with the assistant
where he's like asking for a whole bunch of advice,
and then at the very end, as just as he's
putting his jacket out, I don't wear your black suit. Yeah,
it makes you look like a mortician. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
So he goes to the dating thing and all the
women basically line up to meet him and talk to
him because he's like because he hacked the algorithm, yeah,
and he's been affleck yeah right, so yes, so all
the girls start talking to him, but then they realize
like he's a little different. He's like like he's like,
instead of like pretending to like them, he like just

(24:11):
calls them out on stuff and like argues with that
gives him tax advice, Yes, yeah, exactly, gives all them
on like tax advice in their format.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
I love that. Yes, it's just a montage of him
saying the same line over and over again to different women.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yeah, and uh, basically, like the event event organizers are like,
how did you get every single woman to like talk
to you? And he basically explains like, hey, like all
I did was just think of like all the best
photos a woman like and put them into my while
and all the key words that that get matches across
dating sites, and then I just reversed your algorithm or whatever.

(24:46):
And yeah, yeah it's great. But then obviously no one,
no one goes with him because he's like, yeah, yeah,
there's no there's no bs there, or there's no sugar cunning,
right yeah, And and so he's a little bit like
he's a little bit sad because then we see Mary
Beth she's going to JK. Simmons house and kind of

(25:07):
sees his he is wall of all the photos are
taken down, but eventually she rearranges it to like his
wall of evidence because he's been following this case and
trying to figure out like who, like what is going on? Right, So,
so Mary Beth is trying to find this family and
continue on this mission as well, because she doesn't know

(25:30):
really that that he's looking for this family, but she
knows it's kind of the centerpiece of the whole thing.
So she's obviously been led to believe that something is
important here. She just doesn't know what it is quite yet, right,
And so she's starting a piece together the thing while
trying to find ben Affleck, And eventually ben Affleck just
finds her and he's like, you know what does he say?

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Well, because he phones or she phones that harbor thing, yeah,
and she phones like and then and she's like, I
know she's always listening. I know she can hear me.
And she's like, I need an accountant or whatever. So
then he shows up, finds her, shows up, and how
does that go?

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Now, Well, it's the same parking garage that caused the
accident of the lady es like like that they're looking for.
So they're in the same kind of kind of boat there,
and essentially she's like, Okay, we need to find what's
going on here, and I need your help because JK.

(26:31):
Simmons basically new like you'd be the person to come
to ask for help. Well, this is going on. We
see some John Bernhal shots obviously Christian's brother, and he's
kind of pacing around his hotel room. He's trying to
figure out he's gonna ask a girl out, is what
we assume, right, She's trying to figure out how to
say it and ask and talk. Yeah, And it's like
a three minute scene of him trying to basically build

(26:54):
up the courage to make this phone call. And he
makes the call and he realized he's actually just trying
to get a dog, like the breeder is ready for him,
and and it's a really funny scene and basically Braxon
is gonna go to Christian at some point. We see
not a fun scene with him with like he's talking

(27:17):
to a lady, looks like he's on a date and
she she's very nervous. Yeah, she won't talk to him
and do anything, and he's and then she's like asked
him not to hurt him, and he's like, what why
would I hurt? You have I done to ye to
give you any anication that I would hurt you.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, right, and then she's like all scared.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
And then he gets a phone call from Christians Yeah,
and he's like I need your help. He's like, well,
that's fucking great. Eight years and I don't hear from you.
Now you need my help?

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah, yeah yeah, And so the lady's freaking out and
and Brax is like, I'm offended that you even think
I'd hurt you, right, and then he walks out of
the room with his ice cream and he shows like
thirteen dead people all around and that.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah it's good.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah, oh man, so ridiculous. And essentially Christian's looking for
the family in the photo. The bad guys are still
kind of after the family camera's resetting, So through more
scenes with the bad guys, we find out that in

(28:19):
terms of the boy's family, the father has been killed.
We don't know necessarily where the boy is, but we're
kind of led to believe based on a photo that
he's in like a prison almost or what they think
would be a school at first, but it's actually a prison,
and the mom is like totally misplaced, right, So the

(28:41):
mom is who we see at the other the movie,
she's actually tasked down to kill a Marybeth essentially because
she's getting too close to figuring out the pie or whatever.
And and John Burnhal is tasked to kill is he
also tasked to kill Marybeth?

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Is that well he is, but so he goes to
help Christian and then he gets the text that that's
his potential target to stand by for further instructions, and
then he says and then he gets another text later
that's contracts to signs stand out. Yeah, And so it

(29:21):
was sort of it that I thought that was an
interesting moment, like, oh shit, and now what are we
gonna do? And then like, oh, it's okay, you know, Yeah, it.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Would have been interesting to see John Bernhal like try
and figure out if he's gonna like betray or do
something like that, but he doesn't obviously. So so basically
Mary Beth is kind of getting closer to figuring out
the pie. We know like through some scenes that Ben
Affleck has looked through some of the bank accounts of
the bad guys and know that they're laundering money and

(29:50):
which ones are fake and stuff like that, and where's
this money going to? And John burnhal And and Ben Affleck,
christ and Practice meet up together and basically they're gonna
try and find the person who's giving all these contract
brokers anyways. And so they hire a bunch of prostitutes
who basically give them information and leave and they don't

(30:14):
do anything with the prostitutes or just informant, right, and
then the guy comes the broker, and he they basically
beat him up, and then they leave and the lady,
the woman is her name Edith is that I forget
where her name is. She basically she basically goes to
kill Mary Beth, and she almost like almost does it,

(30:36):
but then she realizes, oh wait, she's actually the woman
in the photo, Like she kind of sees it on
the wall and realizes like by looking at it, right,
And so Christian comes in he lets her leave because
he also kind of realizes like, oh wait, this is
that woman as well, like everyone kind of realizes that
at the second, right, So the lady leaves, they like
resuscitate and and save basically, and they head on their

(31:01):
merry way. Chris and Brax basically are like, Okay, well
now we got to go for these kids, because something's
going to be happening to them. They find out how
like the nerd divergent Center that or neurology center or
whatever it's called that that basically, oh, these kids are
about to be executed essentially because.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
They're cleaning up the trail.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Exactly because they know that the people are after them, right,
So basically Chris and Bras go after them. They fight
a bunch of dudes, they save the kids from being executed,
which is really dark.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, that was one thing about those whole movie is
the whole movie is a relatively dark and gritty movie.
Like for a comedy, it's you.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Know, yeah for being so funny. The ending scene is
they put all the kids in a big hole in
the ground. Yeah, and they're about to shoot them all
and then they basically come like and it's like whoa,
Like that's that's pretty intense, right.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
I'll be honest. So I feel like it's almost a
bit of a plot hole in a way, it is
a hole because like, shoot him on the bus, I
have the bus into a river.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
It's clean up though, Yeah, it's clean up. It's it's
basically like it's a lot easier to get someone someplace
while they're walking because then you don't have to carry them.
And then also it's like, well, now you have a
spot to bury them, so like and it's a nice
school bus. You don't want to lower the resell out.

Speaker 6 (32:30):
You oh boy.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah. So basically they're taking all the kids, but obviously
the kids are safe. Nothing happens to them again super dark,
like oh my gosh, like crazy and Chris and Brats
come and they're like, hey, don't worry, You're going to
be safe right now. Everything's fine, And so the kids
with natural survival instincts like, okay, well these two dudes men, Yeah,

(33:07):
these two dudes just killed everyone I've known for the
last eight years, so might as well talk about right, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. So obviously they drive the kids to safety.

Speaker 7 (33:18):
We know that.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
The mom of the kid knows that it's her kid.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
She's starting to regain some memories, but.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
She's still a different person completely, so she doesn't really care.
At the end of the day. She's just trying to
get revenge on the people who destroyed her family because
now she's just like, can never go back to that. Ye,
So she kills like the broker whoever, like the dude
who's been signing out these contracts and stuff like that.
Uh and the guy who like basically like turned her
into an assassin after her accident and and all that stuff,

(33:48):
and yeah, essentially.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
You forgot one more very important thing.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yea.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
As they're driving back on the bus and early in
the movie, Chris, when when John Burnhal's character when Braxton
told Chris that he was going to get a dog,
Chris is like, you know, asking a bunch of questions like,
you know, are you gone for extended periods? And do
you have somebody to look after your dog? You know,
are you know moving around a lot? And then I
think you're more of a cat guy, you know. He's like, no,

(34:16):
I'm not a cat anyway. At the end, he hears
something stuff the bus there was a cat hiding in
the engine. It's a now he has a cat. And
then there's a funny the very ending scene where they're
driving the kid back to the Harbor Neurals Nurse science
place and the kids hogging the cats, so funny.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah, He's like, how can this kid figure out how
to do math? Like likes like like insanely fast, but
he can't figure out when I hand me back to
the Yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's really funny. Yeah, yeah, John
Burnhal is just such a star in this man, Like
he's so good and even I was even saying to
my parents last night, you know, I don't think Ben
Affleck isn't like a good act or anything. It's just

(34:57):
like I feel like I haven't seen a lot of
Ben Affleck's movies where I've been like like super duper memorable,
you know what I mean, Like I think, not in
a negative.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Way, just like I think that he between the first
movie and this movie, he I think he nails the
character like that, like playing a great job doesn't have autism,
and he plays a character with a pretty high functioning
form of Yeah, high functioning form of autism really well,
like just the mannerisms and the facial expressions and like

(35:27):
almost like a little bit of O. C. D with
certain things.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
You know, has to have the same breakfast kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
And it's also again same breakfast is in the first movie.
I did see that, Yeah, and like the you know,
the one piece and like the one piece of cutlery
like for each type and the single plate and everything,
it's all the exact same and like the little hand thing.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
I think the synopsis. I read there was a photo
of the breakfast, so I thought it was funny. When
I saw that in the theaters, I was like, yeah
that is.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
And I just yeah, I mean it's a it's a
it's less of like a in your face performance. It's
a lot more subtle than John Bernhal's, but I still
think he really nails it.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Yeah, it's not as over the top as as like
some of them might be. And so here's the thing,
this is an endless debate. Obviously, you and I forget
that you and I don't have like, like any like
disabilities like that, or don't have autism, so it's hard
to comment on how realistic it is now. Obviously they

(36:27):
did do research and talks with neurodiversion people and some
people who who you know, experience that and for their performances,
right like Gavin O'Connor did that with Ben Affleck as
a way to make it more realistic. So there's these
there's always debates of like when you watch certain shows

(36:48):
like The Good Doctor, where some people are like, that
was an incredible performance. I've never seen something so realistic
and like kind of like me in a way. There's
some people who are like, that's not what having autism
like at all. Right, So it's always it affects people
so differently.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Well, that's the thing with autism. Autism is such a
or any neurodivergence condition or whatever you want to call it,
like that is they're they're so varied in what I mean,
some people who have autism are geniuses with no social skills,
and then other people are you know, you know, completely
different like it it's.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
It doesn't even fit into a stereo ripe or anything
like that.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Because so I don't think that you can you can
put you can just say that's unrealistic, because I guarantee
you there's somebody with a similar, you know, you know,
similar character to that.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
And so that's the world. That's all these shows. I
feel like I read comments all the time with people
being like this is actually like seems like my exact experience.
I mean, I'm sure so not a lot of people
are gonna be like, yeah Ben Affleck's character and yeah,
yeah that's me right, yeah yeah, no, I uh, it's
just like some people say it's great, other peoples don't.
And it goes by case by case basis. But isn't

(38:00):
that what like the spectrum is. It affects the spectrum.
It affects everyone completely differently because we're all unique as
a base level thing, so obviously our challenges are different
and so so yeah, like for me, it worked for me.
I can't comment on realism because I don't have autism,
but his performance worked for me, and I enjoyed it

(38:23):
and I thought it was great. I thought he was hilarious.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
I thought he was the other Like a lot of
people are freaking out about the autism comedy and saying
it's not funny at all. I'm like, I don't understand that, yeah,
because I feel like making fun of you with autism
at all.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
If anything, it's to me it feels more empowering because
you're watching a guy who who often people look at
as something that would be like a struggle or a
disability or something, and he's an epic awesome action hero
who's solving crime cases and stuff like that and committing
and you.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Gotta make break some makes to make an omelet.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
And and saving kids and stuff like that, and he's
he's borderline a superhero.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
And also also like it's like for me, it's like
you can't make fun of like if if you can't
make fun of like like, I don't know. It's just
one of those things where like comedy is making fun
of things, sure, and even if you're not exactly making
fun of it in this case, I mean, I can

(39:27):
see where people might think you are a little bit
making fun of, you know, some of the struggles that
somebody might have. But at the same time, it's like,
that's that's comedy.

Speaker 8 (39:37):
Well, I think it's.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
It's it's not making fun of autism or or anything
intellectual disabilities or abilities. No, it's it's not it's not
making fun of any of that. It's making fun of
of Ben Affleck's character in the world. And and not like,
oh haha, he's autistic, this is funny. It's more of like,

(39:59):
oh that it's funny. He just said that to someone,
and now look at the reactions they're like, why would
you say that to me? Right, yea, And so it's again,
it's not making fun of autism. It's it's set in
that just kind of world. It's used as like a
it's like a grounds and so it's very tasteful. It's
not like, oh, this guy, this guy's is like a
little like weird. It's so like, yeah, haha, no, it's

(40:21):
it's just like it's just like he's beating someone up
and he's like, what hotel are you staying in? What
hotel are you staying in?

Speaker 2 (40:29):
And it's the same thing in the first movie, right,
the first movie, he's out shooting at a at a
farm and these guys come to kill him and he's
like strangling them, and it's the same thing. You know,
who are you working for? Or you know when I
say the name of the employer, you say yes or
those practice yea, yes, you.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Know of course he's.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Choking and then yeah, it's just it's the same thing,
you know.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
So yeah, I definitely don't think it's making fun of
anyone with disabilities or anything like that. It's very tasteful,
and I feel like like if you're offended, I mean, like.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
You can't please everybody with a joke, right, like you
if you make comedy, it's gonna be funny to everyone.
You're not making comedy.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
Well, it's it's very it's tasteful, Like it's tasteful. Like
I feel like unless you have autism, like in a
way where it's offensive to you, because that's not how
you want to be portrayed. And it's like those are
the only people that i'd say, like, like, really have
any said right, don't don't get if it's getting offended
on someone else's behalf when they're not offended but at

(41:32):
all by it, right, exactly. And it's again, it's super tasteful.
None of it is a joke of like, oh he
has autism, it's funny. It's it's more of like, oh,
he's in this situation and he's saying things to people
and it's awkward, which is funny, right, not like yeah,
not haha, he's ridiculous. It's like, oh that was funny, right,
So it's not putting a joke on anyone. It's super funny.

(41:54):
It's super tasteful. So if you're looking for something that's funny,
I was gonna say lighthearted, it's it's still a very
dark movie with dark comedy, but like it's very good
and the jokes are pretty tasteful, like it's not it's
not really making a joke on anything that's negative in
any way. So like you'll have fun, you'll enjoy it.
And obviously I can't comment on on how real I

(42:17):
think like the autism is or anything, but like it
worked for me, right, Like I wasn't thinking like, oh
that's unrealistic, because A who am I to say? And
B it's like it worked. I had a good time.
I have some facts here, yeah, yeah, no, book's getting full.

(42:41):
Uh okay. So I actually don't have many uh okay.
So John Bernhal goes on this rant where basically he's
talking about the Wizard of Oz and he's saying, Terry
the Dog got paid more than like the little people
did in the movie, more than double, right, it's such.

(43:04):
He's going on a rant about how it's like unjust
and stuff like that, and how all these people must
have been looking at like the dog being like you know,
f that guy, he's making double what we are and
he doesn't have to sing or dance or anything. Goes
on like super passionate rant. Right, this is a true fact,
Terry the Dog and Wizard of Oz did get paid
more than double what all the little people who did,

(43:26):
like everyone with Dwarfism who did like the song and
dance and stuff like that and had to do. And
and so yeah, it's so very interesting and it is
kind of seems a little unjust because it's like it's
like really like.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Yeah, but he was, I mean, Terry was. Toto was
the star of the movie. You know, sure, but likes
get paid for.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
But I know he didn't do song and dance. But
he did have to be trained, you know, yeah, I
I whatever, it goes to the owner anyway.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
True. When Fireside did Wizard of Oz, we put it
on at TC.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
This was like twelve years ago.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Now, oh wow, I was I was eight nine, whoa,
so of course I was a munchkin among other things.
But we had most most stage musicals that use a
stuff like like like a Teddy Bear tote. Total, Yeah,
we used a real dog. We had a little we

(44:24):
had we had. Her name was Jemma. That was her name.
And I can tell you working with the real dogs
in a live setting like that, like not even in
a film setting, but in like a live stage production
like the show must go on, you can't. It's difficult
the amount of training that that dog had to do
it to be able to do that. And like you know,

(44:46):
the dog was was already trained, you know, for a
lot of things, but just adapting the training to be
in the.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Get alone an audience. Man, Well, you can't see the.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Audience people, you can't see it.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Yeah, but like even like hot lights on the dog,
blinding it, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
And yeah, but anyway, so then amount of training that
goes into into it, and like you say, it is
going to the owner. You know, it's not going to
the dog. It's going to the owner.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
It's it's a lot of work.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
It's a lot of work. And so like I'm not
saying it's fair, because I do think the humans should
get paid more, but like you know, there's that's that's
a lot of work, and you know, it's a very
specialized thing.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Yeah, it's Yeah, it's funny because we say, like all
the money is going to the like we're paying the dog.
But it's like, stop saying that you're paying the owner
on the dog. Okay, obviously Toto is a star, and
it's a lot of training, a lot of work. I
see those dog acts all the time. I'm like, I

(45:47):
can barely get my dog to sit, just like just
like it is a headache and I have to get
a shake up paw right, and and Holly, my little dog,
I can snap my fingers and she'll sit, and if
I snap, she'll lay down because I was like I
said to my parents, I said, one day she's gonna
be blind or deaf. Maybe she's both, but at that point,

(46:10):
but if she's blind, when I snap my fingers, she'll
notice it. If she's deaf, I can do I can
do this without without without even making the sound, and
she'll still sit and lay down. So I'm like, when
she's old, it's gonna be super helpful. I can't even
get Finnigan. Like Finnegan's way too hyper to like shake
a paw unless I have a treat in my hand.
That's how much of an asshole he is. Like Holly

(46:34):
will do anything no matter what. Right Finnigan, he completely forgets.
He stonewalls me. If I tell him to sit and
then shake a paw, he won't do it. But if
I have a treat in my hand, all of a sudden, oh,
he knows how to do it. It's like that's what
it is, right.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
Dogs are funny, like I mean, like like like my
girlfriend has as a as a Shepherd mastiff cross. He's
kind of an asshole sometimes he's like nine years old.
He's like maybe a little smaller than Maggie, like you know,
but you know, and he he he's honestly, he's an asshole. Yeah,
like then never like if you know, we're hanging out

(47:13):
or whatever, and like Brooklyn gets up and then he
will immediately come and take her spot beside me and
just lay with me instead, Like it's so funny, it's
so funny. Good, But yeah, he's he's kind of an asshole,
but he refuses to listen to anything.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
Yeah, it's interesting dilemma because obviously, yeah, you have the
star that's been through the whole movie, but then you
also have people who are doing rigorous amounts of training,
doing song and dance and stuff and rehearsal, and they're
getting paid less than dogs. So I think, no matter what,
it's funny and obviously life right, Like I mean, if
you accept a job and you're getting paid to do it, right, yeah,

(47:47):
then I mean you're the one doing the job. You
don't need anyone else to fight for your payment.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Because unless you're unionized, right well, well yeah, because like.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
You're you're doing right. Like I'm sure a lot of
them would have just quit if they felt.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Like, if they felt it was on just yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
Maybe that's not fair because obviously sometimes you can't say
no because it's like you need the opportunity and you
need the bit of money. Yeah, but I I whatever,
this is something that happened. It's not my business one
hundred years ago. Yeah, it's not my business anyways, right,
But I do like the thought that they were like
super angry and they're planning to like killing the dog
at some point because they were chosen down.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
They could make a movie about them, making a Wizard
of Mine.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Could you imagine you just like you, just like you
look at Ronald in the corner and he's holding Toto.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
It would be so funny if they did, like an
actual movie on that. But they still paint the dogs more.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
Dude. It's a horror movie.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Right, and it's it's Terry the dog running away from
like seventy little people with knives and.

Speaker 4 (48:52):
White they're trying to find him.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
That's insane, man. Oh I think should they have been
paid more? Probably? I think fifty bucks a day though.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Especially in like what was forty Yeah, yeah, that's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Thirties or forty something like that, right.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
I think it came out in like forty was it?
It wasn't during World War One? Let me see, I
got it, got it?

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Oh, I got it. Forty three is my guests. Oh no,
but then that's wartime.

Speaker 8 (49:21):
Yeah, that's what I think.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
Forty three to forty eight.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Thirty nine I was completely wrong.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
Thirty nine that's completely.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
Wrong right before the war. So yeah, I mean at
thirty nine, that's that's good because your minimum wage is
still in the sense at that point. Yeah, that's actually
really good money for the time it is.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
Yeah, but then, like I want to know how much
the dog is making more than double? Right, so at
least one hundred bucks? Like what a day or or throat.
I don't know, I don't know how it works. It's like,
oh man, that's a lot obviously obviously though lots of training,
lots of prep on both sides. Though both sides need
to be doing a lot of that stuff. And maybe

(50:02):
they just defied it as like well, there's thirty background
dancers and one one dog, right, so we have to
focus on the dog. But very interesting, and I hope
all the people who took part in that were at
least happy at the end of the day and didn't
have any ill Will's words Terry, because I just love
the thought that there was like there's a whole union

(50:22):
of people ready to kill that dog. By the end
of the day, he's getting paid how much? Just like
bunt Oh, man, that's so dark. Okay, back to this movie.
I hadn't seen the first one. I haven't laughed that

(50:45):
hard in a movie in a very very long time.
I wasn't even sure. At first. I wanted to see
because I like heard decent things. It opened up too,
and I was like, Oh, interesting, we're putting up in
some kind of like gambling section and stuff like that,
because like whatever, But then we realize it's old people
playing bingo, right, And I was like, oh, that's funny too.

(51:08):
And I just like I wasn't even sold, Like during
the first scene, I just I wasn't even sold. But
then the dating scene happened, and I knew I was
in for a fun ride. Man. Like it is. It
is a funny movie, and there's lots of dark themes
and stuff like that. There's some very sad moments, but yeah,
it is an enjoyable watch and I would happily see

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it again. It was very well done.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Yeah, I was. I was glad that I paid for
those tickets.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
Like it was. It was it was a great time. Okay,
this photo is a big centerpiece of the movie. This
lady looking for her family. She doesn't know it yet. Basically,
she goes and gets revenge because she's in her accident,
she loses her memories. She has no idea, but her
family was all torn apart, right, separated and misplaced because

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this person she she she goes. When she regains enough
of her memory to realize that this guy tore part
her family, she goes and kills him to get revenge.
Well we assume, so, yes, well she does does it?

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Never actually never actually shows that he did kill him.
That's at the end.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Well, she she goes to his place, and you know, but.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
We never actually she grabs a knife. Yeah, but like
that could be the plot of the third one.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Is he got away? She kills him?

Speaker 2 (52:24):
I mean, yeah, she kills him, but likes.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
No, she killed him, she killed What should call your
dad right now?

Speaker 2 (52:33):
And you're in the viering room, Hey, mister Brookman, all right,
what are we asking I forgot?

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Okay? At the end of the at the end of
the movie Last Night, we need we need your your
excellent opinion.

Speaker 7 (52:55):
Excellent.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
Yeah, there's probably better ways to phrase was great. We're good, right.

Speaker 7 (53:03):
I thought the developed the brother's relationship more and there's
a bit of comedy in there. I thought that was
a lot of fun. And it was just it was
it was. It was a good movie.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
It was a lot of fun. When at the end
of the movie, when the lady goes after like like
the person who tore apart her family, does she kill him?

Speaker 7 (53:26):
Well, I'm assuming so, mh.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Do you think there's a room that there's gonna be
a sequel where he gets away?

Speaker 7 (53:36):
Doubtful. I don't. I'm not. I'm certainly not really out
of sequel. Although I you know what, if it was me,
I would stop at these two movies. But I uh,
you know, I don't think think of the dollars with
these movies, which is what you know Aldywood does. I
would stop there. If there was a sequel, I don't

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think they would base it on that. I think to
be a different a different plot. I mean, this is
a separate plot from the first movie.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
I could see Christian getting married. I could see something
like that, bring.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Back Anna Kendrick and get him married. That could be good.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
Uh. Yeah, so there's there's there's talks I don't know
how true it is. I just was reading some articles
this morning and it seems like there was talks about
bringing Anna Kendrick back for the third movie, and that's
what I read, and I was like, whoa are they
actually planning the third movie? So I don't know yet.
It hasn't made enough money in my opinion, to justify it,
but who knows.

Speaker 7 (54:35):
You know, if they did that and brought it full
circle and maybe made her kind of the loved interest.
They teased that in the first movie, but he's just
not built that way his character. But in this second movie,
they seem to be, you know, kind of nudging in
towards that little things like he was becoming more empathetic
and you know, trying to as well. So maybe that

(54:57):
would be fun. Maybe that would be know, a good
idea to bring her back and kind of you know,
it's more of that again.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
Yeah, I agree, And I haven't even seen the first one,
and so I better get on that.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
You gotta watch get on that, all right?

Speaker 7 (55:15):
You watch?

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Okay?

Speaker 8 (55:18):
Thanks Dad?

Speaker 7 (55:20):
All right?

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Bye?

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Bye? What a legend. I love that man that next
time at the theater last night. He's just a fun
person to watch with your dad has a very awesome laugh. Yes,
so it doesn't look like but if they do make
a third one, very interesting, he would be the bad

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guy though.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
It would be the bad guy.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
I could see them, Like I could see them going
in a way where it's like something happens to Anna
Kendrick and he just like happy, he happens to be
doing some other job and and it he just you know,
happens to be in the area, or she somehow manages
to contact him, you know what I mean. Like she
stumbles into another another mess because in the first one
she discussed she's working for this big robotics firm and

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she discovers a leak in the accounting. She thinks there's
fifteen million dollars missing wo and so they bring in
Benefleic's character. This is why it's a legit job to discover,
like to go through all the records. So he goes
through fifteen years of records overnight and finds it's a

(56:35):
great scene. Actually finds where the money is being basically
cycled through another company because they're gonna take it public
and so they're they're invoicing money and it's a whole
thing anyway, they're gonna make a whole bunch of money
off of it. But she discovers it and then he
confirms it, and so that's why they're both in danger.

(56:57):
And so I could see her now being completely different
company or something. And she discovers something again, like you know,
that's her characters flaws. She notices those kinds of things.
That's kind of maybe why they got along a little bit.
And it's kind of a like kind of like a
similar to the first movie, like there after Him, but
instead of sure, but like, I don't know, I don't
know how you'd make it different from the first movie,
but I could see something like that, like that's how

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you tie her back in.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
But interesting. Yeah, I actually am looking forward to seeing
the first one. So this is my kind of main complaints. Obviously,
the lady goes for revenge. She kills the person who'd
wore up her family, but she rips the photo in

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front of him. And this photo has like been like
her only reminder of her old self and stuff like that,
and she looks at him and she rips the photo. Okay,
some symbolism. He literally tore her family apart and ruined
her life. She just tore her family apart in front
of him. But come on, it's the one photo that
she has that like reminds her a little bit of

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her past self. I mean, you could argue maybe she
doesn't want to know.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
I was just gonna say her her character is such
an odd one that and we don't really know what
she's thinking. We really honestly have no ide because she says, like,
well two words in the whole movie.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
That's a little weeks. That part's just a little weak
to mee because she tears up the photo and then
she kills him, and it's like, Okay, yeah, she tore
she tore apart her family. He tore a part her family.
She knows she can't go back because she's like not
the mom anymore. But then it's like, why is she
even extracting revenge on this dude? Because if her family's
torn apart and she's not that old person anymore, then

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why does she care. She's no longer that mom anymore.
I'm completely different person, So what reason may have?

Speaker 2 (58:42):
Maybe it's her trying, that's her way of trying, you
know what I mean, I don't know, I don't know.
I again, it's it's one where I don't really.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
But she doesn't try.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
Well that's yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
She even says to Christian or whoever. She says to
someone like, oh no, that's I'm not that's not me anymore.
She's like, that's not me. So it's like, oh interesting,
like it's not you, but you still want to get revenge,
like A swears she concerned. She's concerned. She doesn't even
know that lady. She doesn't know. Then she realizes this
is her, but she has no memory other than the

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whistle of the guy who like destroyed her life. So
she goes and like kills him.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
That is a great scene. We we've heard the whistling,
uh the do do do? Pop goes the weasel. We've
heard that whistling a couple of times. And then he
gets out of the shower and he's singing it and
he's you know, do do do do Do Do do do?
And then we hear off in the distance boo boo
boo boo, and it's like, you know what's gonna happen.

(59:39):
I just love it. It's like something out of a
horror movie, you know, but like that's where it's a
little darker and grittier. You know what.

Speaker 8 (59:50):
Is there a problem? Can I help you? I guess.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
The movie also ends with Bras and Chris driving away
and that are gonna go on a hiking trip as well,
like with each other, because there's a They're gonna be
little brothers.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Now, what do you want?

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
She's looking at her employees. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 8 (01:00:18):
We're almost done. Okay, almost done.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
I think she's telling us.

Speaker 8 (01:00:33):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
I finally understand. The dancers on the Wizard of Oz
felt she's got an employee of the month twelve times,
and I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Even get a word in when you earn more than
her or when you make more? Sorry is their biggest sales?

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
Lady? Are we done now?

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
I don't think we need to be done, don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
I like what she done. I love the comedy. Again,
I wasn't sold on her character. That actually felt like
the weakest part of the movie.

Speaker 8 (01:01:13):
Too, only poop nuggets?

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
Can you stop? But uh really, at the end of
the day, I loved the comedy enough that it like
kind of made up for those weaker parts because it
was like, oh, at least I'm having fun.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
I'm enjoying it. It's an interesting thing too, because that comedy.
It's the first movie is less of a comedy. It's
a little more of a straight up action flick. So
that's an interesting direction that they took it. But I
really think it works, especially with Braxton playing more of
a role you know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
Yeah, and John Burnhal plays it really well too, is
like rug it in tough in a way, but then
like he he sells the moments as well of him
being completely emotionally like charged, right where he's picking up
cats and cuddling them and stuff like that and getting.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
The dog right yeah, or the scene in the bar,
that's a great scene where it where sure, and that's
another perfect example of of Christian's character development when he
decides he's gonna go and you know, do the dancing
and he and he does it, and yeah, it felt
a little bit out of place almost, but at the
same time, I see why they did it, if they're
trying to develop that character.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Yeah, it's incredible to me how the brothers are supposed
to have very little chemistry because they well they have
some chemistry, right, but like they're estranged in a way, right,
So like they're true, they're they're a little bit separated,
but both Ben Affleck and John Berthal have incredible chemistry
on screen that it's like they play it good.

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
I think the difference there is that they they were
trained together. So throughout the first movie, we get flashbacks
to their their dad, So their mom leaves and their dad,
who's this old military dude, is trying to train them,
and so they are always doing martial arts training and like,
you know, there's one scene you know where Christian he's

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maybe i'm gonna say, like thirteen, and he's being bullied
at school and so his dad makes me go fight
the bullies all in a group, you know, so and
he and his brother like went through that together. And
so I think that's where they do have some chemistry
because they were trained together by their dad.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
So you know it's yeah, I guess so they have
that chemistry and they play that really well. But like
in terms of interests as adults, I think they're very different,
but they play it so well together and they're like
you know what I mean, Like it's like, oh, hey,
I haven't seen you in eight years, and it's like hybracs.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
This is so funny. It's like, yeah, he's like hibration.
That's all yet not not a fucking hey, great to
see you, man.

Speaker 8 (01:03:50):
I missed you, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
And actually that there's that one scene where they're on
the is it when they're on top of the airstream
He's like, you know, is you know the reason that
you know you didn't miss me? Is it? Is it you?
Or is it amazing me?

Speaker 4 (01:04:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
Yeah yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
And I like I really like that scene, you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
Know, yeah, yeah it is. It's a very interesting scene. Yeah. Uh,
I mean that's mostly what I have. I yea again,
I wasn't even sold at first, and then after that
dating scene, I was like, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
Oh yeah, I love it, like it's good.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
Uh And I mean I guess the dating scene is
like it's pretty quick six minutes. Yeah uh no. I
had a good time and I would happily see it again.
Good And I can't wait to see the first one.
Yeah yeah I did, and get out. Sure, let's do it.
What do you rate it?

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
I haven't thought about this at all. I don't even
crossed my mind to rate it. Eight point two.

Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
Yeah yeah, uh, I'm right now between like a seven
and a half in an eighth, I'll go eight. Because
here's the thing, Well, the movie itself was probably like
a seven seven and a half. I had such a
good time in the theater last night, and that's all
that matters, really, And I haven't laughed that hard in
such a long time. So I'm gonna give it an eighth.

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Like it's it's solid. I have problems with the lady
and how they did that, but like, it's a really
fun dynamic. And there was talks about them developing even
a TV show before the sequel came out, and I
just it made me think, like, yeah, I would have
loved a TV show about the two brothers like doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Yeah, the character development is such a central part of
the of this movie in particular, that I think having
the opportunity to do that over the course of a
TV show would.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
Be I loved the dynamic at the end between between
Brax and Chris, just like the with the cat scene
and stuff like that. I thought it was even.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
In that in that that last scene in the compound,
like that that last fight scene, last action scene. I mean,
it was really well done. I really liked how how
kind of kind of gritty it was.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
Yeah. Anyways, that was a review of The Accountant too.
We will see you tonight at the roxy for Indiana
Jones have a good day.